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Description of Professional VB.NET 2003

Microsoft^® considers Visual Basic^® .NET to be the language of choice for applications where developer productivity is a top priority. It offers you the ability to program against the .NET Framework, and the most recent version includes tools for programming today’s hot mobile applications. This code–laden reference covers VB.NET 2003 from start to finish.

These pages will help you discover how to apply object–oriented concepts in design and development to create effective business applications. You will be able to access data using ADO.NET, integrate VB.NET with XML, create both Windows^® applications and Web services, and much more. Finally, you will explore best practices for deploying .NET applications and understand the power of VB.NET in development that targets the Internet as easily as the desktop.

What you will learn from this book

• How to create new namespaces and import and alias existing namespaces within projects
• Error–handling methods using the Try...Catch...Finally structure
• How to work with data binding and update the underlying data source in Windows applications
• Methods for developing multithreaded applications
• How .NET Remoting is used to exchange serialized objects between clients and servers
• The differences between Mobile Web and .NET Compact Framework applications

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced developers who are making the transition to VB.NET or seeking a deeper understanding of the most common VB.NET programming tasks and concepts.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real–world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780764559921

Pages:

1056 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

164294

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Published:

22/06/2004

Edition:

3rd Edition

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About Bill Evjen and Billy Hollis and Rockford Lhotka and Tim McCarthy and Jonathan Pinnock and Rama Ramachandran and Bill Sheldon

Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, one of the nations premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners dedicated to solving today’s most challenging business problems using 100% Microsoft tools and technology.

Billy Hollis is a frequent speaker at conferences, including Comdex and VBITS and is MSDN Regional Director of Developer Relations in Nashville, TN for Microsoft.

Bill Evjen is president of the St. Louis .NET User Group, as well as the founder and executive director of the International .NET Association (INETA). Bill, is also an active author and speaker on .NET technologies. Bill is a technical director for Reuters in St. Louis, Missouri.

Bill Sheldon is currently employed as a Principal Engineer with InterKnowlogy. Bill designs software solutions and develops enterprise infrastructure components.

Jonathan Pinnock spends most of his time developing and extending the successful PlatformOne product set that his company, JPA markets to the financial services community.

Rama Ramachandran is VP of Technology with Imperium, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner for E–Commerce. Rama is a MCSD and designs and develops web applications.

Tim McCarthy is a Principal Engineer at InterKnowlogy, where he architects and builds highly scalable n–tier web applications utilizing the latest Microsoft technologies.

Contents of Professional VB.NET 2003

About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1: What Is Microsoft .Net
2: Introducing VB.NET and VS.NET
3: The Common Language Runtime
4: Variables and Type
5: Object Syntax Introduction
6: Inheritance and Interfaces
7: Applying Objects and Components
8: Namespaces
9: Error Handling
10: Using XML in VB.NET
11: Data Access with ADO.NET
12: Windows Forms
13: Creating Windows Controls
14: Web Forms
15: Creating Web Controls
16: Data Binding
17: Working with Classic COM and Interfaces
18: Component Services
19: Threading
20: Remoting
21: Windows Services
22: Web Services
23: VB.NET and the Internet
24: Security in the .NET Framework
25: Assemblies and Deployment
26: Mobile Application Development

Appendix A: Upgrading: Using the Visual Basic Compatibility Library

Index